Football Persuasive Speech

How many football games have you been to or seen on TV where at least one player has laid on the ground waiting for the trainer to come tend to their injury? According to Wake Forest Baptist Health, forty-seven percent of football players in America are injured every year. I would like to share with you why full contact football should not be played in or before high school. Full contact football should be banned for high school and younger athletes.

Football related concussions take a toll on underdeveloped brains. About 52,000 people die each year from a sports related brain injury, claims Wake Forest Baptist Health. The growing brain doesn’t use as much space in the skull making it easier to injure the brain. The younger they are during

the injury the longer it takes to recover. Boston University studied the brains of seventy-nine former football players and seventy-six of them showed signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. This progressive degenerative disease of the brain is found in athletes with a history of repetitive brain trauma, including symptomatic concussions and asymptomatic subconcussive hits to the head. I believe that many coaches are just teaching their athletes to hit each other as hard as they can to become the alpha male on the field and have the other team fear you. But doing this can actually take a huge toll on the brain which could really hurt them in the long run.
Many concussions can result in shrinking of the hippocampus, which contains your emotional control and memory formation. Sdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfdf Clinically diagnosed concussions had hippocampuses that were fourteen percent smaller than males who had never played football before. I think that with a smaller hippocampus athletes will have different feelings toward everything and maybe lose their love for the game. They could also have permanent memory loss.
The National Football League charities funded college football players from Michigan who were not diagnosed with concussions over the course of a season.

This study proved that it only to ten to fifteen hard hits to notice physical changes to their brain and six months after the end of the season imaging scans still showed mild brain injury in half the players. With these documented scans I think that the concussion symptoms can appear very quickly if you do this on a daily basis. Also I believe they can stick around for your entire life and could gradually get worse. As you can see there are many problems with concussions and how many happen a year. They sure do take a toll on our still developing brains.

The most important thing about playing football is safety, and some items we use for safety are not what they’ve cracked up to be. There is virtually no difference in the safety of different brands who say they are better than the next. It turns out all helmet brands provide the same amount of protection in some way. Sdfsdfsdf repeated twelve mile per hour impact with ten popular helmet brands and they all only cut the concussion risk by twenty percent. If even the “best protection” helmet band was the same as all the others I believe that something has to be done with the safety and protection against

concussions.
The National Football League partnered with an Indianapolis- based your organization, USA football. When football coach Greg Ehrich learned how to tackle his coaches taught him to “bite the ball.” His instructions were pretty broad: hit the guy, facemask on the ball, wrap up and stay low. His coaches theory was lead with the top of your helmet, Ehrich was unsure about how to hit a ball carrier safely. This program trains and tests coaches how to teach tackling, recognize concussion symptoms and fit players for equipment. With this program I believe that it will reduce the risk of brain trauma and help concerned parents feel less anxious when their child is playing.
Many people believe that the biggest problem with football is actually the players. According to Scott Hallenbeck USA football executive director, reckless, ignorant, and untrained individuals who think the helmets will protect them from anything are actually hitting way harder than they should. This actually defeats the purpose of the helmet all together because you take a risk of injuring the player they tackle. I honestly think that the game could potentially be safe if it’s taught properly but at this point and time the players aren’t executing proper safety.
Football helmet companies may say they’re better than the next but in reality they are practically all the same.
Playing football can lead to an increased risk of developing Alzheimer’s. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health found football players who suffered from a concussion were four times more likely to die from Alzheimer’s. Causing a person to get Alzheimer’s from a concussion is from a hard hit that makes the hippocampus shrink.
The “speed players” on the field have an increased risk of injury. Positions considered a speed player are: quarterbacks, running backs, half backs, full backs, wide receivers, right end, defensive backs, safeties, and linebackers. These players have a higher risk of concussion because they hit/are hit harder since they most generally have the ball almost the whole game. With these players building considerable momentum before they tackle or are tackled I think is pretty unsafe.
CTE is a growing injury when playing football. Authors note that repeated head injuries have also been linked to CTE, a form of lasting brain injury that can lead to personality changes and depression. When retried football players’ cause of death was thought to be Alzheimer’s it actually was CTE which isn’t usually a cause of death. I believe with the interest in these health issues, football and safety is being talked about how much more dangerous it’s becoming.
Some people may argue that the rule changes make football safer. One rule change is the amount of contact at practice was limited to one-third of the practice, or forty minutes. Even if you limit it to forty minutes you can still have someone get hurt in that short of time, that rule is practically saying, “if we have a time limit people won’t get hurt” which isn’t always true.
Full contact football should be banned for high school and younger athletes. If this actually happened these athletes would still be able to play flag football or touch football. Forty-seven percent of football players in America are injured every year. That is an overwhelming amount that could easily be decreased if we remove full contact football from high school.